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Overcoming the Equation: Security = Friction

CTOvision

We’ve migrated to a userid-password society; as we’ve added layers of security, we password-protect each layer: PC (and now device), network, enclave, application, database, and storage (encryption). This post first appeared on George Romas’ HP Blog.

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Fountainhead: What Is Meant by a "Cloud-Ready" Application?

Fountainhead

unique network topology (including load balancing, firewalls, etc.). connected to differing forms of storage (not to mention storage tiering, backup etc.) QoS), and storage (connectivity, tiering, caching). Because a complex. landscape will include many servers (often virtual machines) linked by. manner with unique rules.

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Thinking Out Loud: Targeting the Real Problem

Scott Lowe

The real problem is the configuration and management of network policy: stuff like QoS, VLANs, ACLs, NAT, VRFs, firewalls, load balancing, etc. Visit the site for more information on virtualization, servers, storage, and other enterprise technologies. Thinking Out Loud: HP Flex-10 Design Considerations.

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Fountainhead: Infrastructure Orchestration in use within SPs.

Fountainhead

HP, IBM and now even Cisco have solutions in the space, but I believe only Egenera has been doing it the longest, and has the broadest installed base of enterprises in the real-world using it and expanding footprint. F or the past months Ive held that new technologies are OK.

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Technology Short Take #32

Scott Lowe

I try to keep the information linked to data center technologies like networking, storage, virtualization, and the like, but occasionally other items slip through. Ranga Maddipudi ( @vCloudNetSec on Twitter) has put together two blog posts on vCloud Networking and Security’s App Firewall ( part 1 and part 2 ). Networking.

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Technology Short Take #33

Scott Lowe

This post by Ranga Maddipudi shows you how to use App Firewall in conjunction with VXLAN logical networks. Correction from the last Technology Short Take —I incorrectly stated that the HP Moonshot offerings were ARM-based, and therefore wouldn’t support vSphere. App Firewall? Venky explains it in this post.

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- Tech Terror List 2010

Chief Seattle Greek Blog

Yup, we give you a standard HP model with Windows XP, Office 2007 and Anti-Virus loaded on it. Stop and Think, before Connecting (and also have a good firewall and anti-virus program!). They’re unmanageable. And every employee wants to use their own. CIOs have long practiced the mantra of standards standards standards.

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